Record Details
pages 442-443
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025hn http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,466 |
| Title | pages 442-443 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-26 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 138,656 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | TABLE OF DISTANCES The foregoing table of distances makes the length of the Columbia River to be 1,264 miles, of which 512 miles are in British Columbia and 752 miles are in the United States. The mileage from Castlegar, B. C., to the Pacific Ocean was mainly compiled from the reports of Lieutenant T. W. Symonds, the United States engineer, and J. P. Forde, the Canadian engineer. I found their distances, while not always exact, to be near enough for all practical purposes. The mileage... |
